Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But we won't get there with markets. All markets will do is create incentives to ...
But we won't get there with markets. All markets will do is create incentives to cheat. Think of the market for "#CarbonOffsets," which were supposed to substitute markets for direct regulation, and which produced a fraud-riddled market for lemons that sells indulgences to our worst polluters, who go on destroying our planet and our future:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy26/
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